The municipal board or commission entrusted with harbor management is responsible for the notice requirements under this subsection.

Sec. 5. 12 MRSA §1866, sub-§4, ķA, as enacted by PL 1997, c. 678, §13, is amended to read:

A. After notification under subsection 2, the director shall investigate any report of an abandoned watercraft and give notice to the owner if an owner can be identified. The notice must require the owner to respond within 15 days and to remove the watercraft from the coastal waters within 60 days of notification by the director or, if the watercraft is icebound, within 60 days of ice-out in the body of water where the watercraft is located. If the owner of a watercraft to whom the director has given notice does not respond to the notice and remove the watercraft within the time period specified or the owner can not be identified or contacted, the director may initiate removal of the watercraft is considered abandoned.